Pepper Grow Planner: When to Plant Peppers Where You Live

Wondering when to start your pepper seeds, or whether that habanero will ripen before your first frost? Type in your zip code or town and pick a pepper. The planner gives you dates for starting seeds, hardening off, transplanting and your first harvest, using NOAA frost data for your area, and tells you if your season’s long enough. Every growing figure comes from a university extension service or a seed company, and when we don’t have one, the planner says so. Want to know where the numbers come from? Here’s how the Pepper Grow Planner works.